Will County Board member Raquel M. Mitchell | Facebook
Will County Board member Raquel M. Mitchell | Facebook
Six Republican candidates were among those recently voted into power in Wheatland Township.
Chuck Kern won his race for assessor, Bill Alstrom was voted in as highway commissioner and David J. Scriven-Young won his race for collector.
In the race for township trustee, Colleen M. Rotkis, Meghna Bansal and Gregory Nichols all emerged victorious.
In the days leading up to the election, Will County Board member Raquel M. Mitchell urged voters not to be fooled by distractions and to cast their votes for GOP candidates.
“Wheatland Township has been run efficiently and with transparency,” she said. “Unfortunately, their Democratic opponents enlisted Chris Kennedy and Congresswoman Lauren Underwood to tell the taxpayers to abandon their low taxes and responsive government for programs nobody asked for and higher taxes.”
Mitchell said the reasons Republicans should remain in power in Wheatland are almost too many to count.
“The Wheatland Republicans actually gave their taxes back in the form of zero town fund taxes,” she added. “Nobody is doing that on either side of the aisle and the Democrats definitely would like to diminish that in exchange for the shiny green deal and (anti) suburban policies meant to cede authority to federal central planning.”
In one of tightest races of the night, Alstrom knocked off Democrat Thomas Wieser with 51.14% of the vote or 238 votes.
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